Koestenbaum to speak on 'the line' in poetry and visual art

Posted February 4, 2013; 04:52 p.m.

by Staff

Wayne Koestenbaum, a professor English at the CUNY Graduate Center and visiting professor of painting and printmaking at the Yale University School of Art, will speak on "Odd Secrets of the Line" at 4:30 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 7, in McCormick Hall, Room 106. The lecture will explore the expressive possibilities of "the line" in poetry and visual art and discuss work by Pablo Picasso, Emily Dickinson and Egon Schiele.